Django 1.9 Installation SyntaxError: invalid syntax [duplicate]
This is a common issue caused by an outdated version of setuptools (5.5.x):
When installing Django 1.9+ with setuptools 5.5.x, you’ll see:
Compiling django/conf/app_template/apps.py ... File"django/conf/app_template/apps.py", line 4 class {{ camel_case_app_name }}Config(AppConfig): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntaxCompiling django/conf/app_template/models.py ... File"django/conf/app_template/models.py", line 1 {{ unicode_literals }}from django.db import models ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntaxIt’s safe to ignore these errors (Django will still install just fine), but you can avoid them by upgrading setuptools to a more recent version. If you’re using pip, you can upgrade pip using pip install -U pip which will also upgrade setuptools.
The solution is to upgrade pip first (which also upgrades setuptools) and then install django again:
pip install -U pippip install django